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Hollywood Vault
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Author : Eric Hoyt
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2014-07-03
Hollywood Vault written by Eric Hoyt and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-03 with Art categories.
Hollywood Vault is the story of how the business of film libraries emerged and evolved, spanning the silent era to the sale of feature libraries to television. Eric Hoyt argues that film libraries became valuable not because of the introduction of new technologies but because of the emergence and growth of new markets, and suggests that studying the history of film libraries leads to insights about their role in the contemporary digital marketplace. The history begins in the mid-1910s, when the star system and other developments enabled a market for old films that featured current stars. After the transition to films with sound, the reissue market declined but the studios used their libraries for the production of remakes and other derivatives. The turning point in the history of studio libraries occurred during the mid to late 1940s, when changes in American culture and an industry-wide recession convinced the studios to employ their libraries as profit centers through the use of theatrical reissues. In the 1950s, intermediary distributors used the growing market of television to harness libraries aggressively as foundations for cross-media expansion, a trend that continues today. By the late 1960s, the television marketplace and the exploitation of film libraries became so lucrative that they prompted conglomerates to acquire the studios. The first book to discuss film libraries as an important and often underestimated part of Hollywood history, Hollywood Vault presents a fascinating trajectory that incorporates cultural, legal, and industrial history.
Hollywood Vault
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Author : Eric Hoyt
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2014-07-03
Hollywood Vault written by Eric Hoyt and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-03 with Art categories.
Hollywood Vault is the story of how the business of film libraries emerged and evolved, spanning the silent era to the sale of feature libraries to television. Eric Hoyt argues that film libraries became valuable not because of the introduction of new technologies but because of the emergence and growth of new markets, and suggests that studying the history of film libraries leads to insights about their role in the contemporary digital marketplace. The history begins in the mid-1910s, when the star system and other developments enabled a market for old films that featured current stars. After the transition to films with sound, the reissue market declined but the studios used their libraries for the production of remakes and other derivatives. The turning point in the history of studio libraries occurred during the mid to late 1940s, when changes in American culture and an industry-wide recession convinced the studios to employ their libraries as profit centers through the use of theatrical reissues. In the 1950s, intermediary distributors used the growing market of television to harness libraries aggressively as foundations for cross-media expansion, a trend that continues today. By the late 1960s, the television marketplace and the exploitation of film libraries became so lucrative that they prompted conglomerates to acquire the studios. The first book to discuss film libraries as an important and often underestimated part of Hollywood history, Hollywood Vault presents a fascinating trajectory that incorporates cultural, legal, and industrial history.
Broadcasting Hollywood
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Author : Jennifer Porst
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2021-09-17
Broadcasting Hollywood written by Jennifer Porst and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-17 with Business & Economics categories.
Broadcasting Hollywood uses extensive archival research to analyze the tensions and synergies between the film and television industries in the early years of television. It draws parallels to today and the introduction of digital media to highlight how history can play a key role in helping media industry scholars and practitioners understand and navigate contemporary industrial phenomena.
Hollywood Remaking
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Author : Kathleen Loock
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2024
Hollywood Remaking written by Kathleen Loock and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Film remakes categories.
"From the inception of cinema to today's franchise era, remaking has always been a motor of ongoing textual production. Hollywood Remaking critically examines the persistent economic and cultural relevance of film remakes, series, sequels, crossovers, spin-offs, and prequels that emerge from the large-scale system of remaking actively shape how the film industry, cinema, and audiences imagine themselves as these movies constantly negotiate past and present, stability and change through a serial dynamic of repetition and variation. The book develops a theory of Hollywood remaking as an inherently dynamic practice situated between the film industry's economic logic and the cultural imaginary and analyzes how remaking has developed as a business practice in the United States, how it has been imagined, discursively constructed, and defined by networked stakeholders from production and reception contexts, how it has shaped cinematic aesthetics and cultural debates, and how it has fostered film-historical knowledge, promoted feelings of generational belonging among audiences, and become deeply enmeshed with constructions of the self"--
Classical Hollywood American Modernism
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Author : Jordan Brower
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-01-18
Classical Hollywood American Modernism written by Jordan Brower and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
Classical Hollywood, American Modernism charts the entwined trajectories of the Hollywood studio system and literary modernism in the United States. By examining the various ways Hollywood's industry practices inflected the imaginations of authors, filmmakers, and studios, Jordan Brower offers a new understanding of twentieth-century American and ultimately world media culture. Synthesizing archival research with innovative theoretical approaches, this book tells the story of the studio system's genesis, international dominance, decline, and continued symbolic relevance during the American postwar era through the literature it influenced. It examines the American film industry's business practices and social conditions, demonstrating how concepts like anticipated adaptation, corporate authorship, systemic development, and global distribution inflected the form of some of the greatest works of prose fiction and nonfiction by modernist writers, such as Anita Loos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Patsy Ruth Miller, Nathanael West, Parker Tyler, Malcolm Lowry, and James Baldwin.
Everyday Movies
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Author : Haidee Wasson
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2020-11-10
Everyday Movies written by Haidee Wasson and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-10 with Performing Arts categories.
Everyday Movies documents the twentieth-century rise of portable film projectors. It demonstrates that since World War II, the vast majority of movie-watching did not happen in the glow of the large screen but rather took place alongside the glitches, distortions, and clickety-clack of small machines that transformed home, classroom, museum, community, government, industrial, and military venues into sites of moving-image display. Reorienting the history of cinema away from the magic of the movie theater, Haidee Wasson illustrates the remarkable persistence and proliferation of devices that fundamentally rejected the sleek, highly professionalized film show. She foregrounds instead another kind of apparatus, one that was accessible, affordable, adaptable, easy to use, and crucially, programmable. Revealing rich archival discoveries, this book charts a compelling and original history of film that brings to light new technologies and diverse forms of media engagement that continue to shape contemporary life.
Coming Back To A Theater Near You
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Author : Brian Hannan
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2016-06-05
Coming Back To A Theater Near You written by Brian Hannan and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-05 with Performing Arts categories.
In the Silent Era, film reissues were a battle between rival studios—every Mary Pickford new release in 1914 was met with a Pickford re-release. For 50 years after the Silent Era, reissues were a battle between the studios, who considered old movies “found money,” and cinema owners, who often saw audiences reject former box office hits. In the mid–1960s, the return of The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)—the second biggest reissue of all time—altered industry perceptions, and James Bond double features pushed the revival market to new heights. In the digital age, reissues have continued to confound the critics. This is the untold hundred-year story of how old movies saved new Hollywood. Covering the booms and busts of a recycling business that became its own industry, the author describes how the likes of Charlie Chaplin, Humphrey Bogart and Alfred Hitchcock won over new generations of audiences, and explores the lasting appeal of films like Napoléon (1927), Gone with the Wind (1939), The Rocky Horror Show (1975) and Blade Runner (1982).
Immortal Films
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Author : Barbara Klinger
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2022-11-15
Immortal Films written by Barbara Klinger and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-15 with Performing Arts categories.
Casablanca is one of the most celebrated Hollywood films of all time, its iconic romance enshrined in collective memory across generations. Drawing from archival materials, industry trade journals, and cultural commentary, Barbara Klinger explores the history of Casablanca's circulation in the United States from the early 1940s to the present by examining its exhibition via radio, repertory houses, television, and video. By resituating the film in the dynamically changing industrial, technological, and cultural circumstances that have defined its journey over eight decades, Klinger challenges our understanding of its meaning and reputation as both a Hollywood classic and a cult film. Through this single-film survey, Immortal Films proposes a new approach to the study of film history and aesthetics and, more broadly, to cinema itself as a medium in constant interface with other media as a necessary condition of its own public existence and endurance.
Hollywood And Broadcasting
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Author : Michele Hilmes
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1999-07-27
Hollywood And Broadcasting written by Michele Hilmes and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-07-27 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
"Michele Hilmes has produced an excellent introduction to a most important subject. This is an invaluable work for both scholars and students that places film, radio, and television within the context of the national culture experience." --- American Historical Review "Hilmes is one of the few historians of broadcasting to move beyond a political economy of the media. . . . Her work should serve as a model for future histories of broadcasting." --- Journal of Communication "All media historians will find this work a critical addition to their bookshelves." --- American Journalism "A major addition to media history literature." --- Journalism History
Reinventing Hollywood
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Author : David Bordwell
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-10-02
Reinventing Hollywood written by David Bordwell and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Introduction: the way Hollywood told it -- The frenzy of five fat years; Interlude: Spring 1940: lessons from our town